About Sandra Gordon
Healthy Relationships Allow Us To Experience Love In Its Purest Form
I believe that our relationships are a reflection of God’s grace. And when you’re fortunate enough to find someone to share your life with, that connection is always worth preserving and fighting for. Feeling deeply and securely connected gives you access to love in its purest form. It awakens every other area of your life and lets you feel more in tune with yourself and your world.
After all, transformation is rooted in the power of relationships. People often talk about making the world a better place, but that starts in the home. It starts with your partner, your family, and the ones nearest and dearest to you. Just as unhealthy relationships can be our greatest source of anguish, healthy relationships can be our greatest source of joy, motivation, and empowerment.
As a marriage and couples therapist, it’s my goal to help people create relationships that serve as a springboard for their healing, happiness, and growth. In my own experience as a wife and mother, I’ve seen how nurturing and life-affirming healthy relationships can be. I want my clients to experience the same thing.
My Approach To The Healing Process Is Warm, Empathetic, And Evidence-Based
Even when I was young, I was the person that people felt safe confiding in and sharing their deepest truths with. This gift inspired me to pursue my calling as a therapist, allowing me to hold space for people doing the sacred work of healing themselves and their relationships. Today, I specialize in helping couples deepen their emotional bonds, recover from infidelity and betrayal, and create lives of shared meaning together.
My sessions are not a politically-correct space where you have to censor yourself or tone down parts of your personality. I’m a real person, and I encourage you to bring your authentic self to therapy. My approach is warm, empathetic, kind and direct. I will be there with you when you dig down and explore your deepest emotional wounds. I’ll also be there to hold you accountable and spur you on to achieve the loving connections you’ve always wanted. My sessions provide a chance to get vulnerable—to bridge the gap between how you feel inside and how you show up in your relationships.
That said, these are not venting sessions. Nor are we just here to “talk things through.” I utilize practical, evidence-based practices like The Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples improve communication, reclaim their intimacy, and overcome negative patterns in their relationships. I want you and your partner to get your money’s worth out of therapy—that’s why I incorporate only the best approaches available. I will give you real-life skills to help you become better communicators, lovers, and friends.
My Counseling Philosophy Centers On Reversing Negative Relationship Cycles
I always customize therapy depending on the needs of each couple. That said, one of the central goals of my approach is helping couples break out of unhealthy patterns in their relationships. From time to time, we all get into negative cycles in our relationships where we end up hurting or pushing away the very people we love most. We have to dig deep in order to interrupt these negative cycles of interaction and create safer, more loving connections.
What’s more, I seek to help clients understand the purpose behind dysfunctional relationship patterns. We are what we are because the things we’ve done have served us in some capacity. Even the things that are dysfunctional benefited us at one point in our lives.
For instance, I often hear people say, “In the past, I got hurt whenever I was vulnerable and opened up about my feelings.” In this way, many people learn to hide parts of themselves as an act of self-preservation. Therapy is a chance to understand that the past is not the present—you don’t have to keep withholding your feelings in your relationship today. I will help you learn to pivot, adapt, and let go of what no longer serves you, allowing you to create a relationship where safety and vulnerability go hand in hand.
Outside Of Therapy, I Am Always Investing In My Own Growth
In my spare time, you can usually find me chilling with my husband, catching up on my favorite Netflix reruns, or off somewhere hopping, skipping, and jumping with my sons. When I can, I love traveling, spending time at the beach, and going for long scenic drives. I’m a lifelong learner —I always have a massive list of books to read and constantly try to learn new things each day.
After all, I believe that every effective therapist must invest in themselves the same way they invest in their clients. I strive to put my money where my mouth is—doing new trainings, experimenting with new approaches, and bettering myself as a wife, mother, and friend. I have spoken on parenting and couples work at over 50 seminars and completed trainings in EFT, The Gottman Method, and Prepare-and-Enrich Therapy.
If you want to invest in your own relationship and heal your emotional wounds, I would be honored to help you do so. I believe today is the best day to fight for tomorrow, and I encourage you to take the next step in your healing journey today.
Sandra Gordon is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Coral Springs, Florida. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Florida International University and a Master of Science in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University. She is licensed to help clients in both Georgia and Florida and serves as a clinical supervisor for post-master’s clinicians seeking full licensure as Marriage and Family Therapists.
Sandra has completed Levels 1, 2, and 3 in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, earned a Gottman certificate in Treating Affairs and Trauma, and done an externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. She’s a Prepare-and-Enrich Facilitator, Bringing Baby Home Educator, Accredited Positive Parenting Therapist, and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional. She is also a member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT) and a Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT).
Sandra is currently working through an Emotionally Focused Core Skills training.